Ukraine
men in masks and
costumes travel from
house to house—playing
jokes on whoever answers
the door—during melanka,
a folk holiday celebrated
on january 13, the julian
calendar’s new year’s
eve. These revelers live in
Kosmach, a Hutsul village
in the carpathian highlands.
pHoTo: gera arTemova, anzenBerger
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